# minutus
## Latin
### Etymology

Perfect passive participle of minuō (“diminish”).

### Participle

minūtus (feminine minūta, neuter minūtum); first/second-declension participle
* diminished, having been diminished

#### Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

### Adjective

minūtus (feminine minūta, neuter minūtum, comparative minor, superlative minimus, adverb minūtim); first/second-declension adjective
* very small, little, minute
* petty, mediocre, commonplace

#### Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

#### Antonyms

* magnus

#### Derived terms

* minūta n
* minūtia
* minūtal

#### Descendants

* Eastern Romance:
** Aromanian: minut, minutu
** Megleno-Romanian: minut
** Romanian: mărunt, mănunt — regional
* Italian: minuto
** → Maltese: minuta
* Navarro-Aragonese:
** Aragonese: menudo
* Old French: menu
** Middle French: menu
*** French: menu (see there for further descendants)
* Old Leonese:
** Asturian: menudu
* Old Occitan: menut
** Occitan: menut
* Old Galician-Portuguese: mẽudo, mĩudo, miudo
** Galician: miúdo
** Portuguese: miúdo
* Old Spanish:
** Spanish: menudo
*** → Cebuano: menudo
*** → English: menudo
*** → Tagalog: menudo
* Piedmontese: minù
* Rhaeto-Romance:
** Friulian: minût
** Romansch: minuta, minut
* Sicilian: minutu
* Venetan: minudo, menudo, menuo, minuo
Borrowings
* → Albanian: minutë
* → Aragonese: minuto
* → Aromanian: minutã
* → Asturian: minutu
* → Basque: minutu
* → Bulgarian: минута (minuta)
* → Catalan: minut
* → Chechen: минот (minot)
* → Danish: minut
* → Dungan: минута (minuta)
* → Estonian: minut
* → Galician: minuto
* → Icelandic: mínúta
* → Middle Irish: minúit
** Irish: mionóid
* → Ingush: минот (minot)
* → Kazakh: минута (minuta), минөт (minöt)
* → Kyrgyz: мүнөт (münöt)
* → Latvian: minūte
* → Lithuanian: minutė
* → Macedonian: минута (minuta)
* → Mongolian: минут (minut)
* → Norwegian: minutt
* → Occitan: minuta
* → Old French: minute
** Middle French: minute
*** French: minute
**** → Farefare: miniti
**** Haitian Creole: minit
**** → Romanian: minut
*** → Dutch: minuut
**** Afrikaans: minuut
**** → Caribbean Javanese: menit
**** → Papiamentu: minit, minüt, minuut
**** → Trió: minut
** Norman: minnute
** Walloon: munute
** → Central Franconian: Menutt, Minutt
** → German: Minute, Minut
*** → Czech: minuta
*** → Estonian: minut
** → Lower Sorbian: minuta
** → Luxembourgish: Minutt
** → Middle English: mynute, minute, mynut, mynet, minut
*** English: minute
**** Tok Pisin: minit
*** Scots: meenit
* → Portuguese: minuto
* → Romansch: minut, minuta
* → Russian: минута (minuta)
** → Bashkir: минут (minut)
** → Kazakh: минут (minut)
** → Yakut: мүнүүтэ (münüüte)
* → Scottish Gaelic: mionaid
* → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: мѝнӯт, мину́та
    Latin script: mìnūt, minúta (Croatia)
* → Spanish: minuto
** → Cebuano: minuto
** → Kapampangan: minútu
** → Maguindanao: minutu
** → Maranao: minotos
** → O'odham: minu꞉to
** → Quechua: minutu
** → Tagalog: minuto
* → Slovak: minúta
* → Slovene: minuta
* → Swedish: minut
** → Finnish: minuutti
* → Tatar: минут (minut)
* → Turkmen: minut
* → Tuvan: минут (minut), минута (minuta)
* → Uyghur: مىنۇت (minut)
* → Welsh: munud
* → West Frisian: minút
* → Yiddish: מינוט (minut)

### References

* “minutus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “minutus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* minutus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* minutus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.